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What s the Lakshman Rekha for Free Speech about Religion?  Updated Feb 27, 2021 | 09:06 IST Is India really prepared to be a society open to a free exchange of views on matters of faith, even at the risk of being offended?  Representational Image  In India, deliberately, or with malicious intention, hurting one’s religious sentiments is a crime under Section 295 A. And there is no shortage of hurt sentiments, irrespective of which community you belong to, and that’s a key reason for the law to be so routinely invoked. For a liberal, ideally, the line that needs to be drawn in terms of limiting free speech is where it descends down to inciting violence. Though the laws against sedition, under Section 124A, and hate speech or promoting enmity between groups, under Section 153A, have been read down by the courts, with an incitement to violence a key pre-requisite for consideration of a conviction, they, too have been misused. With Section 295A, it’

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